Hi All
Looking for, How to guide
to Connecting a IDE CDrom drive to my A1200
I have The 4-Device Buffered IDE interface for the Amiga A1200
http://www.2e0zak.co.uk/b/id.jpg
TEAC CD-224E / Dell 079ETT CD ROM Drive (B94 Version)
http://www.2e0zak.co.uk/b/cc.jpg
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And I am having some troubles with my
Microbotics M1230XA accelerator card
http://www.2e0zak.co.uk/b/m1230xa.jpg
Put it in to the A1200 and it do not show up
in ( BOOT Screen ) or then WB is loaded too
Do i need a driver for the accelerator card and
do i need KS 3.1 Rom install.
My A1200 as KS 3.0 Rom install and the motherboards Rev???
HELP PLZ :confused:
OK.... Just for information. In the DEVS:DOSDrivers drawer you should have CD0: This probably is in your storage at the moment. If you drag over it will load on boot. However in that file there is a mount list which you wont see from the information on the icon. If you get a text editor like CygnusED (CED) and open the file CD0: from the editor you will see two important things there... first the device name which in my case is 1230scsi.device and the Filesystem which in my case is L:AmiCDFS. ( In the L drawer ) I got mine with the Blizzard. In your case you will likely need atapi.device and CacheCDFS which I believe you get if you install IDEfix. Go to Aminet and download IDEfix and run... There is a tool for auto sensing the CD and it will set everything up for you. You will get an annoying popup saying that the software is unregistered every 30 mins. Not a problem.
And no CD will not show as an icon on the screen until you insert a CD. I leave a CD in all the time.
As to the accelerator... You don`t need a driver, though some accelerators have software support. Check the Amiga Resource site from Germany.. They often confirm if the card has software and usually you can download it.
You don't need the 3.1 ROM though if you upgrade to 3.9 which I would avoid without better RAM and graphics... you get better CD support and CacheCDFS. You need the CD to install OS3.9.
Hope that helps. CED is a great tool for checking all your icons on the Workbench. Also get up to speed with DOpus for file management and SnoopDOS to check ecactly what is going on with your Amiga.
scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com
